Linda Craig-Musé Gallery

Purveyor of Fine Arts

About the Artist:

A native Californian, Linda has been a lifelong artist. Blessed with a creative mother and doting father who encouraged her early attempts, she also had the good fortune of being encouraged in her endeavors by family friends, Jean Renoir and Gabrielle Renard Slade, who exposed her to Impressionist masterpieces from a young age. This exposure was to shape concepts and thoughts lasting a lifetime and brought about an appreciation and love for art that at age fourteen began to express itself thru oil painting.

At Citrus College fortune smiled again in the persons of Robert Hallett and Robert Herrington, instructors of amazing talent who helped expand the exposure to different forms of art. But always, no matter what was presented, there was a return to the deep roots of oil painting. She says of oil painting, "It is the smell of it, the manipulation of it, and the end result. It's like an addiction. You will always come back to it in the end."

Subject material for an artist is usually drawn from a patchwork of individual experiences and fascinations. For Linda, going to rodeos as a child in Salinas and Hollister, California, planted the seeds that would grow into a series of western paintings portraying cowboys. In college the study of American History resulted in a trip to a Rendezvous where the subject material was gathered for a series of mountain man portraits. Early vacations to the American Southwest coupled with the study of anthropology brought forth portraits of American Indians. Four trips to Scotland was the driving force behind the creation of fifteen Scottish Landscapes being painted.

Education:Citrus CollegeCalifornia State Polytechnic University, PomonaAzusa Pacific University University of LaVerne